There is so much to capitalize on here ... the Clyde jokes, the "make my day" reference in a room full of so-called "pro-gun rights" supporters where guns were prohibited, the endless empty chair quips ....

Yep. Lot's to capitalize on for the MSNBC crowd but, it was funny, a light moment, an American icon supporting the conservative cause, and, unscripted. A big plus for R&R and you'll see it in the polls. It definitely got under O's skin. Did you see his tweeted reply? A very defensive reply to a comedy skit. With the swing state Polls dead even, do you think someone's worried?

Maybe. But they didn't. And the liberal media, even though they knew of it, didn't bother to even mention that an old couple who lost their son to cancer was explaing how Mitt was absolutely selfless in helping their family, practically and personally, through their greif. They just keep repeating how he cannot relate to the average person. Plus, Romney himself, like many great men and women, aren't comfortable bragging about themselves. Contrast that with the current brag master who'd favorite words are I and me.

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair”

I wonder, had Clint spoken at the DNC and done the same thing (e.g., had a conversation with an empty chair representing Romney) that we'd be seeing the vitriol, riducule, insert your geriatric joke of choice here we're seeing now from the left and elsewhere ... yep, that' s just what I thought.

AlTRAG

P.S. Favorite Clint movie? Toss up between Dirty Harry and Unforgiven. Oh, and I always liked the Eiger Sanction too.

The President has been in office roughly 3 years 8 months. I know its hard to account for three fourths of a year, so we'll round that down to three.

Find me a credible (no Breitbart, no Drudge, to Daily Caller, and no Beck) source, 1 for each year of his Presidency wherein the President can clearly be seen to "bragging" in a personal way about anything his administration has achieved.

I give you an idea where you might get started: The bin Laden announcement. The President used "we" and "our" maybe sixty times. He used "I" maybe six times. He rarely brought the raid up before this election cycle became toxic, and when he has brought it up it's in response to an attack from Republicans or their friends on the Fevered Wingnut Fringe.

Extra points for neatness. Stay in the margins.

Sorry to be imprecise with numbers, but I don't have time right now to review it again.

In an interview with Laura Ingraham, White House reporter Jake Tapper said that the media is failing the country.

"A lot of people are hurting out there. Unemployment is 8.3 percent. That doesn’t even take into account the underemployed,” he said, arguing that too much time has been spent not talking about the economy.

No shit. Let's make an issue of the buffoon Akins comment and broad stroke all conservatives as being of the same bent. Throw in same sex marriage and we won't get back to the economy until after the election.

"Tapper also criticized the media for not giving enough attention to the war in Afghanistan."

Oh yeah. That nasty bit of business in the Mid-East that we're losing.

"Tapper also said he relates to Mark Halperin's recent comments about the media. Over the weekend, Halperin said, 'I think the press still likes this story a lot, the media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants, which is to focus on this."

'I have said before… [that I] thought the media helped tip the scales. I didn’t think the coverage in 2008 was especially fair to either Hilary Clinton or John McCain,' Tapper said.

Tapper has also been critical of the lack of face time the president has given the legitimate media:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-to-president-obama-after-press-briefing-dont-be-a-stranger/

And seems to be rather fair and balanced when it comes to R/D:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314250/jake-tapper-wheres-presidents-plan-alexander-kazam

I like it that my observation is backed by the Kos Kids when they have this to say about Mr. Tapper:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/26/1123668/-Jake-Tapper-demonstrates-why-the-media-is-useless

1) The primary point that Clint made -- that 23 million unemployed Americans is unacceptable -- should have been endorsed by Democrats. Yet Democrats in the news media can't address that because it exposes the utter hypocrisy and corruption of the party. I say that as someone who worked months as a volunteer in 3 Democratic congressional campaigns, in Howard Dean's 2004 campaign and in Obama's 2008 campaign (both primary and general.)

2) No one can acknowledge that Obama had an enormous concentration of power in January 2009 --huge Democratic supermajority in House, filibuster-proof 60 votes in Senate. And he chose to stab the American people in the back so that Goldman Sachs, the Big Banks and his other donors could avoid suffering the consequences of their corrupt gambling.

3) Just as Democrats can't acknowledge that it was a corrupt Bill Clinton who joined with Phil Gramm to destroy the banking regs set up by FDR. That it was Bill Clinton who let his Wall Street buddies rape our economy. Just as they can't acknowledge that Hillary sent 4500 US soldiers to their deaths in Iraq because Israeli billionaire Haim Saban dumped $14 Mil into the party in 2000-2002 to ensure Israel's enemy was removed (see Wikipedia on Haim).

4) Clint has integrity --which is why he utterly despises the hypocrites running the Democratic Party.

Aren't the conspirators still in the Army in the Georgia would-be terrorist case subject to an Army court-martial and execution for treason? It seems to me that military justice is going to be swifter and surer. The purpose of their conspiracy was to attack their own country in a time of war.

Lots of points in there subject to debate. I'll just address a couple.

1)The idea that the President had "an enormous concentration of power in January 2009" is...well...wrong. There was a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate for roughly 5 months-the stretch of time between when Al Franken was finally seated and the when Scott Brown was seated to replace Senator Kennedy. Five months, not the entire 111th Congress as righties frequently claim. And even during that brief period of time Senator McConnell used every procedural move he could make to slow or stop Mr Obama's initiatives.2)The idea that as a Senator Hillary Clinton's vote for the AUMF for Iraq (or for that matter any single Senator's vote) was directly responsible for the decision to go into Iraq(and 4500 of our finest dead) is just patently wing-nut crazy. The AUMF didn't pass by a single vote. Any one Senator's vote therefore mad zero difference. 3)Of course 23 million unemployed or underemployed is unacceptable. But your comment is couched to make it look as if Democrats haven't been trying to do anything, and that's ridiculous. Late last summer Mr Obama introduced the American Jobs Act, and the GOP just said no. Since they took the House in 2010 the GOP has just said NO to anything Mr Obama and Democrats in Congress have proposed.

WSJ Opinion Page, April 30, 2012:While contemplating how the killing of bin Laden reflects on the president, consider the way he emphasized his own role in the hazardous mission accomplished by SEAL Team 6:

"I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority . . . even as I continued our broader effort. . . . Then, after years of painstaking work by my intelligence community I was briefed . . . I met repeatedly with my national security team . . . And finally last week I determined that I had enough intelligence to take action. . . . Today, at my direction . . ."

It's pretty obvious that the President is using the UBL get to make himself look good and, who can blame him? He did, however leave himself a life raft that would have placed the blame on a General, if the operation had failed. Who would blame him? As it turns out, lots of Navy Seals think he's making it all about himself and minimizing the roles of everyone else. I agree with them. You don't. The military is mostly pro Romney. That's not a surprise. This is one of those unwinnable arguments. I'll give him some credit, if he's learned how to pronounce Navy Corpsman.

What I want to know is where was the hair and makeup crew? Surely, with a little movie magic they could have made him look a little less like he had one foot in the grave. Or maybe that was the look they were going for?

If all you've got is Eastwood, you're bobbing for apples with a blindfold on. Many of the Democratic delegates aren't even going to their own convention. What does that tell you? No matter, I not a huge fan of Romney, but I believe he has the American people's interest at heart. More so than Obama.

If Obama gets the Black vote, and he will, and the majority of the Hispanic vote, and the Independent vote, he will win. If the independents vote for Romney, Obama has a big problem, and could lose.

I think Romney will beat Obama in a debate, and I think Ryan will clean Biden's clock in a big way in their debate. Doesn't really matter what I think, but it does matter what the majority of people think.

"If all you've got is Eastwood" should be directed at the Republican National Committee and the Romney campaign...Certain wingers think he was hilarious and spot-on...but the vast majority of opinion across the spectrum thought it was stupid to allow ANYONE to go out there unscripted, let alone an 82-year old loose cannon. He took 12 minutes-he was scheduled for 5. Because of the overrun the convention was forced to cut what is by all accounts a quite endearing video collection of Romney home movies that might have served to humanize him a bit more.

As to the debates, just go to the video of the primary debates. Mitt's mouth can be a weapon of self-destruction when he goes off script, and his skin is very thin. Remember the $10,000 bet? Remember him grabbing Perry's shoulder in an effort to intimidate him?

The President is going to slice, dice, chop and puree him. What the fuck is Romney going to have to say in a foreign policy debate? Bomb Iran, invade Syria, and Russia is our biggest geopolitical foe? Pick a trade war with the Chinese? How to insult Great Britain in two short days? Romney can't talk about debt reduction, because the Ryan budget he's already endorsed doesn't even balance the deficit-not the debt, the deficit-until 2040 because despite turning Medicare into a coupon program benefiting the insurance companies, which is not indexed to rising medical costs, he makes the Bush tax cuts permanent and then doubles down on them with additional wasteful tax cuts to the rich. Wasteful because the Bush tax cuts were supposed to encourage "job creators" who turned out to be job cremators. The top 1% or 2% have been throwing the money on the pile, not creating jobs.

"If all you got is Eastwood"...yeah, maybe that IS all the GOP has...MR

There is something beautifully ironic about the vid associated with this post being "no longer available" due to "multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement." I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's there.